Multiple-Choice Trivia II

biancospino · Post Post #348 (isolation #0) » Sun Dec 18, 2022 1:23 pm

I liked the concept, but it seems I came late to the party :/

Anyway, I'll try to necropost:

Which of the following mathematicians does

not

have a theorem or formula named after both them and Leonhard Euler?

A) Euclid
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) Christian Goldbach
D) Colin Maclaurin

biancospino · Post Post #350 (isolation #1) » Sun Dec 18, 2022 2:55 pm

Incorrect. The Euler-Goldbach theorem is the statement that the infinite sum of all the reciprocals of perfect powers minus 1, with no repetitions, is 1.

biancospino · Post Post #353 (isolation #2) » Mon Dec 19, 2022 10:45 pm

B is correct.

The Euler-Maclaurin formula is about integral approximation;
The Euclid-Euler theorem is about even perfect numbers (of note, Euler was born several millennia after Euclid)

biancospino · Post Post #355 (isolation #3) » Mon Dec 19, 2022 11:21 pm

biancospino · Post Post #358 (isolation #4) » Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:16 am

Hey, C's already taken!

biancospino · Post Post #362 (isolation #5) » Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:30 am

Talking of horrible things,

On January 15, 1919 a catastrophic flood in Boston claimed 21 victims. It was not water though; what fluid was the flood made of?

A) beer
B) molasses
C) mud
D) milk

biancospino · Post Post #366 (isolation #6) » Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:25 am

B's correct. It was caused by a structural failure of a molasses tank in the Purity Distilling company.

biancospino · Post Post #368 (isolation #7) » Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:35 am